Sleep Labs

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Do stand alone sleep labs require a generator ? Every sleep lab that I have seen has a big yellow cat out back of the building. What about patients on a C-pap machine if you lose power this could cause a patient to suffocate.
 
Nothing in a sleep lab would present a safety hazard to the subject of a sleep study, if all power were to be lost. That includes anyone using a CPAP machine. If that machine loses power, the person wearing the mask can still breathe normally.
 
iwire said:
Maybe your Dr. is trying to tell you something. :grin:
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When I first got the job of ahj, I inherited a sleep lab. I went in for a final inspection and almost fainted because I saw it as a health care facility. When I returned to the office, pulling my hair out, I was informed that the chief building inspector and the fire saftey officer had deemed it not a health care facility. :-?:mad::confused:
 
Hendrix said:
. . . I was informed that the chief building inspector and the fire saftey officer had deemed it not a health care facility.
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That does not surprise me. No "care" is being provided there. You go there to take a test. They attach a set of EKG leads and a microphone, and you sleep for the night. You are attended by technicians who attached the leads, and who remove them in the morning. You don't get shots, they don't prescribe medications, and if anything happened that required emergency medical attention they would call 911.
 
charlie b said:
That does not surprise me. No "care" is being provided there. You go there to take a test. They attach a set of EKG leads and a microphone, and you sleep for the night. You are attended by technicians who attached the leads, and who remove them in the morning. You don't get shots, they don't prescribe medications, and if anything happened that required emergency medical attention they would call 911.
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The thing that really PMO is there were no ebu's in the bath rooms, where, if the power went out, would be as dark as a pocket. They had showers in the bathrooms too.
 
Hendrix said:
The thing that really PMO is there were no ebu's in the bath rooms, where, if the power went out, would be as dark as a pocket. They had showers in the bathrooms too.
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And where is the code requirement for emergency lighting in a bathroom?

FWIW I agree with Charlie, a sleep lab is not a health care facility.

Chris
 
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